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The Independent Weekly hear'say
January 22 - 28, 2010
With Botters and Lachy.
Any resemblance to the
Premier s media minders
Jill Bottrall and Lachlan
Parker is entirely coinci-
dental.*
L: Hi Botters. I was thinking.
B: That could be dangerous.
L: I was thinking about
friendship.
B: Do you have any friends,
Lachy?
L: Not in the media.
B: Me neither. But that s the
job.
L: But why, Botters? Why
can t we be friends with the
media.
B: Because it s our job to
control them.
L: The Boss says most of the
media are his friends.
B: That s different. That s
Boss-style friendship.
Arm-round-the-shoulder-
don t-dare-cross-me-type-of
friendship.
L: Do you mean you can t
have any real friends in
politics?
B: Yeah, but you can t trust
them.
L: So what are they for?
B: To be useful. To be seen
with. To boast about.
L: The Boss does boast about
some very famous friends.
B: Perk of office.
L: They re not real friends.
B: They re political friends.
You scratch their back,
they ll scratch yours. But you
have to be careful they don t
say the wrong thing.
L: For example?
B: Arnie Schwarzenegger
once said the best activities
for your health are pumping
and humping. I was afraid he
might repeat it.
L: John McEnroe?
B: Thank you, Randy. But he
corrected it
L: Lance Armstrong.
B: Something about a couple
of mill and wine. But in
private.
L: At least he said thank-you.
*Not based on a true story.
The Independent Weekly s
inherent modesty dissuades us
from blowing our own coronet,
but we can t let this one pass
without a mention.
The Catholic Archdiocese
of Adelaide has announced
the appointment of IW s
publisher, Solstice Media, to
manage the publication of the
Archdiocese s 143-year-old
newspaper, The Southern
Cross.
The respected and award-
winning newspaper (ABC
presenter Matt Abraham is a
former editor), with a circula-
tion 50,000, is distributed free
to parishes and Catholic school
students throughout the state
and to individual subscribers.
The agreement will advance
The Southern Cross into digital
publishing, with electronic
versions available through the
church and Catholic education
networks. The digital publica-
tion will offer innovative
media options for readers and
advertisers.
SA-based Solstice Media will
produce the publication under
the direction of the church s
communications director,
Jenny Brinkworth, who will
remain editor.
Ashley Draper, who a few
weeks ago sent us a pix of
a misspelt name on a road
sign, has been travelling
again. And guess what he s
turned up?
There s another sign
exactly like this one on the
southern side of Jetty Road.
Perhaps there was a bulk
discount from the signwrit-
ers.
Iconic images of Tasmania s
Franklin River helped save
the south-west from hydro-
electric development. Images
of the desiccated Coorong
helped bring the plight of the
Lower Lakes to international
attention.
But nature doesn t have
to be endangered to invoke
staggeringly eye-catching
photography.
Late this month, an exhibi-
tion from the arid New Mexico
region of the United States will
be on display at The Citadel
in Goodwood. It s a travelling
exhibition put together by
Julie and Jerry Courvoisier,
who have a strong connections
with SA. Together, they
regularly bring American
photographers through the
state, travelling to the Flinders
Ranges, Kangaroo Island and
the Clarendon Hills wine
region.
Their photography book, A
Vineyard Year, is currently in
production.
The affable Veterans Affairs
Minister, Mick Atkinson, has
written to Hear say about his
frequent-flier points.
"I can assure readers I
cannot recall having accumu-
lated any frequent-flyer points
and, more to the point, have
never used any in 20 years as
an MP. A simple phone call
before publication would have
established this," he chided.
We are suitably chastised.
And yet ... and yet ...
On March 17, 2003, the
Liberals Rob Lucas asked
Atkinson five Parliamentary
questions about his overseas
travel.
None of those questions
have yet been answered. A
month earlier, Lucas asked
him six questions relating
to staffing. None of those
questions have been answered.
And seven years ago, two other
Parliamentary questions about
staffing and staff costs -- still
unanswered.
So we asked him last week:
what are the answers to those
questions?
So far, no response.
But we might get an answer,
now that we ve published that
we haven t got an answer.
The Government is rightly
under attack for the tens
of millions of dollars of
taxpayer money it uses for
blatant pro-Labor political
advertising. The latest
ads about the desalination
plant, coming just before
the election writs are
issued, are morally, if not
legally, repugnant.
But a great deal of
government advertising
is not only legitimate,
it s essential -- like public
health campaigns against
flu or STDs, and depart-
mental information about
roadworks and boating
safety.
The Department
of Environment and
Heritage s latest
Landscapes booklet is an
example of non-political
information, with stories
about career opportunities
as graduate rangers,
restoration of the Para
woodland, the upgraded
trail up to Mt Lofty and
saving pygmy perch.
The Landscapes team,
including project manager
Michael Hamilton, has
done an excellent job.
Hear say speaks unpar-
donable French, but
we trawled through
the media releases from
the Ministre de la Jeunesse
et des Sports, Roselyne
Bachelot-Narquin, to see
if she issued daily media
releases about the Tour de
France. Non!
But SA s Tourism
Minister, Jane Lomax-
Smith, does. "After the
huge success of yesterday s
first Santos Tour Down
Under leg from Clare
to Tanunda, it s Gawler
and Hahndorf s turn to
welcome the cyclists today,"
she said on Wednesday.
Could this be because SA
has an election sooner than
France?
Bien s r que non.
Non en
France
Not all propaganda
New Mexico.
Photo: Alan Ross, an assistant to the late Ansel Adams.
Eye-catching happy snaps
Ask, and ye shall not receive
A (tiny little) boast
Ill ville
The mallee fowl in Landscapes.
What are
friends
for?
Southern Cross editor Jenny
Brinkworth.